Buttonhole for wearing-apparel.



0. T. DAVIES.

BUTTONHOLE FOR WEARING APPAREL.

APPLICATION FILED PBB.21, 1913.

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INVENTOR WITNESSES CHARLES W. T. DAVIES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BUTTONHOLE' FOR WEARING-APPAREL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Original application filed May 5, 1911, Serial No. 625,381. Divided and this application filed February 21,

1913. Serial NO. 749,832.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHAnLEsW. T. DAVIES, a subject of the King of Great Britain residing at New York, county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buttonholes for Tearing-Apparel, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to buttonholes for wearing apparel. I

The present application is a division of m co-pending application, Serial No. 625381, filed May 5, 1911, and the present invention has for its object the provision of a duplex buttonhole consisting of two but-tmiholes respectively in the superposed or adjacent plies of the article of wearing apparel and arranged in intersecting or crossed relation to each other, whereby the respective parts of the duplex buttonhole are adapted to coiiperate with the shank of a fastener to retain it in position.

The present invention may be applied to various articles of wearing apparel and may be variously formed, but it is particularly adapted for use on cuffs having a plurality of separate plies permanently secured together, and, particularly on ends of soft.

flannel or other soft goods where the chief difficulty is not in inserting the cuff link or fastener, but in preventing it from becoming accidentally detached from the buttonhole.

The embodiment of the invention set forth hereinafter and disclosed in the accompanying drawing is the preferred form, but such disclosure is to be considered as illustrative, and not restrictive, of the scope of the invention.

The accompanying drawing is a view of a portion of a soft cuif provided with my invention.

The drawing shows a soft cuff, either of flannel or cotton on the end of a shirt wristband 1, having two or more folds, plies, or sets of plies secured together in close and ermanent relationship by continuous stitching. along their vertical and horizontal edges, as shown at 56, the fold, ply, or set of plies on the near side '55 being furnished with a vertical buttonhole 54:, while the further fold, ly, or set of plies secured to 55 along 56 is urnished with a horizontal buttonhole 53, shown in dotted lines, crossing the vertical buttonhole 54, so that the head of a stud or button passing through one of the buttonholes cannot emerge on the other side of the cuff Without having passed through both buttonholes, practically simultaneously. The line 58 indicates the lower limit of the cuff proper, which of course, may terminate lower down if necessary. This edge 58 niay be left fully or artially open, or it may be stitched down t roughout its whole length. I have also suggested a possible further line of stitches at 59, but neither'these stitches nor stitching along the line 58 are actually necessary for my purpose, as the all-around edge stitching shown at 56 has been found quite sufficient to retain the several flies of thecuif (and consequently, the respective buttonholes made in them) in close and permanent relationship under the roughest handling in the laundry. There is no reason, however, why the two buttonholes should not be supplied with as much supplementary stitching, near their edges, as may be preferred.

As I consider this invention more suited to articles of soft fabric, I have shown buttonholes of the ordinary make, but they may be made of any size or shape found suitable. Also, while I have shown them as lapping partially in a transverse direction and in proximity to that end of the buttonhole nearest the meeting'edge of the cuff, their juxtaposition is a matter of convenience only, as they may overlap partially in any direction, along the same linear direction if necessary, and achieve the same object. When, however, neatly centered, they have the effect of keeping the stud-head in the center and almost, if not completely, hiding the stitching of the buttonhole itself.

In the use of the invent-ion on folding cufi's, I wish it to be distinctly understood that I do not claim any novelty solely in the superposition of one buttonhole transversely or otherwise over another buttonhole when one of each is made in a separate member of, the article of apparel, that is, in one part intended to be entirely removed or lifted away from the other part unless the respective buttonholes are disposed substantially as shown'in the drawing, that is, with the buttonholes arranged so that the shank of the stud or end link is held in the outer end part of the buttonhole which extends longitudinallyvof the cuif,-for the simple reason that such a construction would be totally inefficient for the purpose which I contemplate.

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When one fold or removable part is solely held to the other by a button passing throng both buttonholes, it'is just as easy for thestud or button to release itself ,from the free outer one and then from the free inner one of said buttonholcs, even when each buttonhole is transverse to the other, as when the buttonholes run in the same direction.

When the invention is applied to cuffs other than folding cuffs and to articles of apparel other than cuffs, it is only when the parts having the crosswise-disposed buttonholes are closely and permanently secured together that my object is attained, namely, a safety buttonhole easy of entry by the stud but not easily escaped from except by intentional and intelligent manipulation.

In the use of the invention on cuffs other than folding cuffs and on all other articles of apparel it is unnecessary that the buttonholesbe so disposed as to confine the fastener in any particular of either buttonhole.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An article of apparel having a buttonhole and provided with an overlying ply of part of the length I signature in presence of two witnesses.

material fixedly secured over and covering said buttonhole, said overlying ply having versely to said first mentioned buttonhole and crossing said first mentioned buttonhole in proximity to that end thereof nearest the meeting edge of said and.

3. An article of apparel having a buttonhole and provided with an overlying ply of material fixedly secured over and covering said buttonhole, said overlying ply having a buttonhole which is positioned to intersect the aforesaid buttonhole terminally of one of them.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto aifix my CHARLES W. T. DAVIES. 

